Brooder.



N. Q. KELSO.

BROODBR.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 25,1913.

Patented Sept. 15, 1914.

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APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 25,1913.

Patented Sept. 15, 1914.

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NYLA a. KELSO, or TULSA, OKLAHOMA, AS

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srenon or ONE-HALF TO JOHN D. Wynn,

BROODE R.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, NYLA Q. KELso, a citizen of the United States, residingat Tulsa, in the county of Tulsa and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brooders; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it. appertains to make and use the same. j

This invention relates to bandry, and more especially to brooders; and the object of the same is to improve the details of construction of a device. of this character.

animal has To this end the invention consists in the:

specific construction of parts as hereinafter more fully described and claimed andas shown in the drawings wherein? Figure 1 1s a perspective view of this brooder complete,

about on the line 3-3 of Fig. 4:, and Fig. 4 is a central vertlcal longitudinal section.

In the drawings the numeral 1 designates the base,-from which rise two laid for the most part by a top 3 which by preference slopes gently to the rear as At their, front ends the sides 2 rise vertically for a distance and carrycleats 4:,

sides 2 overshown.

and from a point slightly ends of said cleats the front 2 are inclined rearwardly as shown: at 5, with the result that the top 3is shorter than the base 1. Behind the cleatsis slidably mounted a front panel 6 which is rendered removable by means of a handle 7 and resting on the incline 5 is a sash 8 also by preference having a handle9, the ends of this sash carrying wings lO of galvanized iron and shaped about as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 so that when the sash is thrown upward as seen in the last named view the extremities of said wings will strike beneath the front edges of the top 3 and prevent the sash from opening too far unless it is lifted out of place by its handle 9. When closed this sash admits light and heat, when opened as shown'in Fig. 2 it admits air as well as light and heat but the Wings 10 prevent wind from blowing on the tender chicks or the chicks from jumping out, and when lifted out of place the front end of the brooder is open except for the front below the upper Specification of Letters Patent.

filed September 25, 1913.

end of the casin Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, Fig. 31s a horizontal sect1on taken ends of; the sides Patented Sept. 15, 1914. Serial No. 791,838.

panel 6 which confines the chicks until they are large enough to jump over it. This panel can also be lifted out of place when it is desired to clean the floor or base 1.. The sides 2 are provided with ventilation openings 11 covered by movable closures 12, and one side may carry a hinged door 13 held closed by a button .14 or like device. A comparatively large door 15 closes the rear and is by preference hlnged at 16 along its upper edge to a strip 17 which is secured to the sides 2, its lower edge being held closed by a button 18 or similar device mounted on a lower cross strip 19 as seen in Fig. 4. The rear door I would provide with end flanges 15 so that it will close airtight-or as nearly so as possible, but the strip 19 is provided with fine fresh air inlet openings 20. Across the in terior of the casing thus constructed is built a partition 21 reaching from the top of the sides 2 downward to a point near the bottom ,1, and this partition and the two sides, the top 3, and the large rear door 15 make up the walls of a heating chamber so called, the bottom of the same being a re-. movable hover cloth 22, preferably woolen, mounted in a frame 23 and resting removably upon cleats 24 extending along the inner faces of the sides 2 as best seen in Fig. 4. This cloth I would make rather loose in its frame so that its own weight will cause it to sag and rest gently upon the chicks beneath, and its front edge I would carry over the forward bar ofthe frame and allow to hang loosely as shown at 25 so as to constitute. a curtain dividing the hover chamber 26fron1 the larger and what I call scratching chamber 27 forward of the partition. The entire hover cloth and its framefcan beremoved out of the largerear door when desired;

While any suitable source of heatmay be employed, I have shown an ordinary kerosene lamp L as mounted within a box 30 having perforations 31 in its bottom for the admission of air to the lamp and a hinged door 32 having a glass panel 33 and held closed by means of a catch 34, so that access to the lamp may be had. This box I would dispose entirely outside the casing of the breeder proper and near its rear end. and the line from the lamp-which carries the products of combustion I pass through the adjacent side wall of the brooder passes out of they boxthe interior 'and out at the point 39'whence they flow "across the interior of the scratching. cham-, ber 27 at 40 without getting into the same; at all, and pass into the open air at, the

longitudinally along the heating chamber as seen at 35, then across the tar end of the same asat 36, thence again back throughout the heating chamber as at 37 and into the box 30 as at 38, whereas the outlet flue leads from said box at 39 and passes directly across the scratching chamber as at 40, through both walls of the casing, and out the far or remote wall at 4:1 where it is covered or protected the lamp is lighted, the heat 30 and throughout the course indicated by the numerals 35, 36, and 37 within the heating chamber which is thereby warmed without receiving any of the products of combustion. The latter flow out" of the fine at the point 38, across or the box 30 at its upper side,

point, 41. Thus it will be seen that I utilize the radiation from the flue within the heating chamber to heat the latter, and the fiue across the scratchthat; but I take carei combustion have, no the interior of the.

radiation from the ing chamber to heat that the products of chance to get into brooder in any way and in fact I locate the entire heating plant outside the brooder casing and warm the interior ofthe latter only For this reason,

by radiation from its made of rather thin said fines should be sheet metal which is heat, although this respect.

part of the heating chamber directly above but some distance away from the hover cloth :22, and the I prefer interior of this chamber to render the upper part of the heating chamber substantially air-tight. The hover cloth itself constitutes the bottom of the chamber, and the result will be that the heat in the latter will heat the cloth and the cloth as at 442 to prevent wind from blowing into this end of the flue." When now a good conductor of- I would not be limited in It will be observed from Fig. i t that the heat is radiated into the upper to line'with felt paper as indicated at which serves as a heat insulation and chamber 27 'may be and fine sand, and in frame entirely when he seeks to gain access to the chicks themselves at night.

The casing'is by preference made entirely of wood excepting bly the flanges 15 may beoii v sheet metal as well as the protector, and the fines.

The uses or brooders are too 'Wellknown to need elaborationheireL What is claimed as new'iszl A. brooder comprising a casing,ja partition wall therein dividing the casinginto a heating and" a scratching, chamber, a heater source of heat within said boX, a flue leadi'ng from said source through theadjacent wall of said casing to the heating chamber and returning to terminate-in the last mentioned side wall, whereby to return the heating said heating chamber, and :a second flue leading from said heater 'boX through the ad acent side wallioi' the caslng toexlast mentioned flue terminating in the opposite side Wall of the casing. i

In testimony whereof I have hereunto "set my hand in presence nesses. I

a p NYLA Q. 'KELSO. 'W'itness'es: 1 Finn)- DL' OILER,

H. T. Gran,

Copies'of this patent may be; obtained for five cents each, by addressing the f fi ommissioher' 'oi .fa'ce nts; Washington, D. C. p i

box applied to one side wall of the casing,qa

yet the heat will be entire base 1 of this in and withdraw the hover cloth and its for thehardware parts, butthe closures 12, the wings 10, and possiproducts oil combustion to said box after tend transversely across *the scratching chamber, the opposite and outer end of said of two subscribingwit- 1 I 

